I watched "The Thief Family" before, and it was great. First of all, it was strongly Amway. Secondly, Ando Sakura is really great.
Then, I have to admit that the background stories of some of the characters are not very complete, and some clues are buried a little too subtle. The friends who went with me still don’t know the story well when they left the theater, so I wrote this article to give Viewers who still don't quite understand what happened outside the screen after watching it, tell me the story I saw.
First Amway's article " Before watching "The Thief Family, You Need to Make Up Lessons " is for those who haven't watched the movie, and I also hope that friends who will read it will read it first, which will help to understand the following.
As mentioned above, this is an article with very thorough spoilers . I think it is very appropriate to take a second look from such an omniscient perspective, because it will feel the helplessness and absurdity more deeply; For those who watch it, I don’t recommend continuing to read it. There are a lot of push notifications for those who are about to enter the theater and watch it for the first time. I will not do such repetitive work. Of course, if there is any disagreement with the speculation or where my memory is not accurate, you are welcome to add it.
Character story
(Introduced in the order of forming a family, some individuals are involved in rationalizing brain supplements, and they are all referred to by their reorganized pseudonyms)
"Mom" Xindai should not be loved by her family when she was young, and may even be subjected to domestic violence. This may be the reason why she protects the young Lingling and shares her sympathy with her mother and daughter. She was a sex worker when she was young, then married a man who was abusive (one scene flashes multiple scratches and scars on her arm), and later revived her relationship with her former guest "Dad" , but was accidentally smashed by her husband, who wanted to kill the two of them in a fit of rage, so they killed the husband in "justifiable defense", and after the end of the sentence (it was mentioned during the interrogation in the middle and latter stages of the sentence) It's over) left there and came to Tokyo. It should be noted that, perhaps because of sex work, perhaps congenital, Xindai is infertile, which may also be the reason for domestic violence, and at the same time provides a motive for her abduction.
After coming to Tokyo, she worked in a laundry shop as an ironing worker. She was very diligent, so her salary was one of the highest among the ironing workers in the store, but it was still not enough to support her family. She also stole some clothes for customers. Forgot to pick trinkets. It was also at work that she accidentally burned her arm by an iron, and was seen by Ling when she was bathing, which led to Lingling's mother abusing her in the film. Colleagues who were supposed to "help" each other faced the decision of layoffs, because they knew they had "abducted" Ling and forced her to give up her job. When she got home, she dressed herself up and wanted to have some comfort with Zhi Wen. At this time, Zhi mentioned "one more vote" that he went to pimp and provide sexual services on behalf of the letter.
During the interrogation, she shouldered all the charges. Personally, she understood that she had a criminal record (it should be that he took the defense when he killed his ex-husband by himself). After participating in the murder, he abandoned the body and abducted In the case of the child, a severe sentence will be imposed, and she may be dealt with lightly due to her personal experience.
She really wanted to be a mother , and she was much more competent than Lingling's biological mother who "didn't want to be born".
"Dad" Zhi is a middle-aged man with no talent. He earns his income by working as a temporary worker. During the period in the film, as a construction worker without a fixed establishment, he goes to the construction site with regular workers every day to work, so there is no work-related injury. Labor protection such as insurance. And on nights when he didn't have to work, or when he had no other work to do, he took his "son" Xiangta to various shops to steal, so as to subsidize the family.
Although the family is so poor, they still have an abandoned car parked in an open space, which is Xiangtai's "secret base". According to his criminal record, this car is probably stolen.
He is the person with the least story in the family , he is just a thief with a murder record .
"Brother" Xiangtai's parents left him in the car when they were playing with small steel balls in the steel ball shop (Pachinko's shop), and sealed the doors and windows. He may have been in a closed environment for a long time at that time. Had heatstroke/dehydration and was (nearly) in a coma anyway. At this time, Ji and Shinyo were on the way to Tokyo, when they stole a car and left a package, and Ji found him. Since Shinyo was infertile, they simply rescued him and raised him as their own son.
Shota knew that they were not his biological parents, but he still preferred to live with them rather than go to his biological parents (when the police officer interrogated him, he said that he had forgotten all about his biological parents). Due to poverty, Zhi has nothing to do, so he had to teach him to steal . Zhi taught him that "only those who can't study at home go to school" to coax him, rationalize the theft by saying "as long as it's out there it doesn't belong to anyone", and said "as long as it doesn't go out of business", then He also taught the same to his "sister" Lingling.
When they first arrived in Tokyo, the three of them should have lived in that abandoned car, so when the police officer was interrogated, they said that they had been living in the car all the time.
He is literate, and he reads books in his closet with his headlamp on. When he took Lingling to steal in the small shop, the gentle persuasion of the shopkeeper's grandfather touched him. Later, when the shop owner's grandfather passed away, Lingling asked him if the shop had closed down (so he couldn't steal any more), but he must have read the words on the door of the shop and knew that the shop owner's grandfather had passed away, so he made up his mind to stop Let my sister steal.
Regarding "Little Black Fish", "in a corner of the sea lived a group of small fish, everyone was red, only one was black. One day, a ferocious tuna ate all the little red fish, only the small Heiyu escaped. He wandered alone in the sea, met many strange creatures, and became happy again. Xiaoheiyu met a group of little redfish hiding behind the reef. In order to survive, he would no longer hide, he thought. It's a good way to teach them to swim like a big fish, and be their own eyes! In this way, they swim in the cool morning, swim in the bright noon, and scare the big fish away."
At first he only knew that the little fish should be united, but he later learned that he was the little black fish .
"Grandma" Hatsue originally had a happy family, but her ex-husband cheated on a married woman, so he divorced her and was with that woman. Although it is a reorganization of the family, the son in the family may be the legacy of the derailment period (in the film, Chuede once sighed that the blood relationship is still very strong, the nose looks too similar, and he also commented on Aji's nose). Out of nostalgia for her ex-husband, after the reorganization of the family both passed away, she went to that house to worship her ex-husband every month. Aki may also be the first grandmother she met at her grandfather's funeral 16 months ago. The son of that family is probably out of guilt for his mother taking away her husband (when he went out, he said that it was because of his mother, I'm sorry, but he said it wasn't his problem), and he would give her 30,000 yuan every time he received her. Money, but Hatsue didn't take in Aji for money, she kept all 16 30,000 yuan.
After the divorce, her son did not live with her, leaving only a house. In the eyes of the investigators, she was an old man who lived alone (Chue asked Sho-ta to take Lingling out to hide during the visit), and hoped to persuade her to live in a retirement apartment, so that he could get a lot of money by disposing of the house.
When chatting with Aki at the dessert shop, she hesitated when she mentioned the pension, and hurriedly changed her mind. Maybe in addition to the pension, she also applied for a monthly living guarantee of 50,000 yen, so she The monthly payment to the family is 60,000, but after death, he can withdraw 110,000 at a time. Because of applying for living security, my grandmother did not do any work, and everyone in the family also worked secretly during the day, and only got together at night.
Ji, Nobuyoshi, and Shota who came to Tokyo had nowhere to live, and after meeting Hatsue who lived alone (perhaps they met at a steel ball store), they moved into the house to take care of Hatsune in exchange for a place to live and some living expenses. If it's just normal death, her pension will be suspended, so they may quietly dispose of her body and continue to claim pension; she doesn't want this, so she said she bought insurance, don't let her keep silent They could also get a lot of money because she declared her death, but Hatsue died too soon and probably wouldn’t meet the terms found in most life insurance policies: “After the insured purchases the policy, The insurance policy will take effect only after 2 years and she is still alive", so they decided to bury her quietly.
In a family of thieves, she would also steal, she stole steel balls, and at the same time, she also stole the offspring of her lover .
"Auntie" Yaji is the granddaughter of Chue's ex-husband. When introducing family members, she specifically said that she was the half-sister of Xin's generation, which should be a hint of her identity. His father divorced and remarried and gave birth to her younger sister, Saka. Therefore, both parents favored her younger sister and neglected her. At her grandfather's funeral, she met Chue and ran away from home to live with her. Since then, there has been no news of her, and her parents have not looked for her again. Facing Chue's inquiries, she only said that she had gone to study in Australia and has been very concerned. Busy did not come back.
Out of jealousy of her younger sister, she named herself Saxiang in the custom shop, which is also when she and Hatsoe were eating ice cream in the dessert shop, when Hatsoe heard her say her stage name was Saxiang and said she was "really bad" reason. Like her and Lingling, everyone in this family has two names.
Because she has never been loved by her parents, she has a certain tendency to self-mutilate. "Mr. No. 4" in the custom shop has scars left on her hands. During the police interrogation, she can see that she also has such scars on her hands. . Also because of the lack of love, she, like Lingling, would like to wear a new dress when she was a child, and would not like to take it off.
It's all because of another woman who lost the love that belonged to him. Aki and Hatsue feel sorry for each other and comfort each other.
"Sister" Lingling is an accidental product that her parents are unwilling to accept. At home, she will be abused by her parents and even burned with an iron. This is what she said when she was taking a bath with Xindai.
Every time her mother tried to beat her, she would always show a wicked smile and say to her, "Mom will buy you a new dress", and the beating would follow. Such a connection has become an almost conditioned reflex, so when trying on a new swimsuit in the store, she will ask questions like "will I be beaten for a while?"
Since her parents were reluctant to care about her, even in the cold winter, they often left her outside the house and let her play alone. That's why Katoji and Shota said "here again" when they met her. , and even according to the later plot, the letter generation should also know that there is her. It was because they knew that she had been left unattended for a long time that they would take her home, and they were even more reluctant to let her go back after knowing that she had been abused by her parents.
At only five years old , she may have lost her teeth for the first time, so she was at a loss, and the adults went to wake up Xiangta.
Character Relationships
The relationship between many groups of characters in the film is worth savoring. The most obvious ones are of course the three pairs of grandchildren, father and son, mother and daughter, but in addition, there are brother and sister, husband and wife, mother and son, "sisters" and other relationships worthy of attention.
grandchildren
The relationship between them should be the most intimate and exclusive in the film. When it was time to pay living expenses, Chue would protect Aji and say she didn't have to pay it, which was agreed before; just by feeling that Aji's feet were cooler than usual, Chue knew that Aji was unhappy; Lingling After wetting the bed, Hatsue said let Lingling go to her place to sleep, and Aji would argue that that was her position.
At the ATM, Aki reminded Chue not to give out the password, but I think Chue should have done it on purpose, so that Aji could take out the money after his death, and the 16 30,000 yuan Chue was not spent, just to cure When they found out, she didn't pay attention, so during the interrogation, she misunderstood that Hatsue was for money. After all, she once said that "relationship is connected by money" to protect her heart. In the end, she went back to the small house and opened the door. She was probably relieved whether she knew the true meaning of those 30,000 yuan or not .
Father and son
The police officer asked Zhi why Jiao Xiang was stealing too much, and he said, "Because that's all I can do ." In fact, he also taught Xiangtai that croquette biscuits are delicious with instant noodles; that's what happens to teenage boys, and what happens to him is normal. Because Shota wanted to fish, he kept the high-end fishing rods that could sell for a lot of money; it turned out that the bathroom at home was very old. On his last night as a father, he would tell Shota that although the house was small, the bathroom was new . Yes , go take a shower. He said that his English was not good, and his Chinese was even worse. When the police station described his name, he only said how to write the word " Xiangtai ". The last name was fooled. Maybe this is the only word he can write , because It was his original name, and he gave it to this "son". Maybe he really is not a qualified father, but he has done a lot. It is worth mentioning that the convenience store at the beginning of the story seems to be the same one that the brothers and sisters went to steal later, and the story ends where it started.
In fact, when he escaped, Zhi wanted to pick up Xiangtai. When he went out, he still took Xiangtai's shoes and told Lingling that we would pick up my brother and leave, but it was really difficult to pick him up. After all, he was in the hospital. . On the last night, he said that they did plan to leave Xiangtai and leave, and it was also to make him live more at ease, just like telling Xiangtai in the car to let Lingling follow and steal her to live more at ease; Xiangtai said He was caught on purpose, and to a certain extent, it was also a reciprocal response. At least I believe that when he was trying to cover Lingling's theft to prevent her from being discovered, he really just wanted to protect his sister. Although until the end, Zhi, who had been inducing Sho Tai to call his father, did not hear the sound of " Dad ", but Sho Tai had silently recognized him.
mother and daughter
Although he said fiercely at first that he wanted to send Lingling back, after hearing the couple quarreling outside the house and saying that they didn't want her in the first place, Nobunyo slowly crouched down and hugged Lingling tightly. When saying goodbye to Lingling's old identity "Yuri", she would hug Lingling and ask "burn it, okay?", and then throw the dress into the flames and burn it. Will say, "Love you is not hitting you, but holding you tightly like me". For Lingling's sake, she gave up her job - in the face of the threat of "girlfriends", in fact, as long as she secretly sent Lingling back, everything would be solved - and said something like "if you speak out, she will kill you". They are not related by blood, but she really raised Lingling as her own daughter .
There are four places in the whole film that I think are the most beautiful in Xindai. Two are related to Lingling, one is holding her to see the burning old dress;
When asked at the police station, "What does she usually call you, mom?", Shindai's cry was really touching. He used to be such a calm and tenacious person, but at this time, he couldn't hide his fragility even if he tried to hide it .
"Yeah, what's it called?"
In stark contrast is Lingling's biological mother. When Lingling was comforting Xindai's scald in the bathroom, she would laugh and say, it's alright, it's completely healed; when she touched the wound on her mother's face that was beaten by her husband, what she got was a complaint, and then she asked her" Say sorry", how similar and how different the repeated requests at this time were from the teachings of Xindai when Lingling wet the bed. The most terrifying thing was when my biological mother said with a wicked smile, "Come here, my mother will buy you a new dress" and wanted to beat him. Thinking of Xindai's comfort, it was especially heart-wrenching.
"It's terrifying to think about being a parent without having to pass an exam."
brother and sister
Xiangtai was reluctant to accept this sister at first, but Lingling always regarded him as a brother, always worried about him, and was willing to sit at the door of the house in the cold night and wait for him to come back. Later, the whole family fell apart, but it was because Xiangtai wanted to protect her sister, she didn't want her to be found stealing things, and she didn't want her to continue stealing.
The small marbles in the light, Xiangtai saw the sea from inside , and Lingling saw the universe . This is the purest dialogue in the whole film, because these are two children.
If the way to treat and love Xiangtai is to pass on everything he has to him, so that he can become another self; then the way to love Lingling is probably to protect her and keep her away from all the bad things about him Bar.
couple
Zhi is not a capable husband, and maybe he can provide less income than the highest-paid letter generation in the store. But under the occasional disgusting dialogue between them, there are two hearts that are connected. When they joined hands to kill her husband, Shizhi stepped forward to bear all the crimes; when the body dumping case happened, in order to protect Zhi, Xindai was willing to bear all the charges, whether it was dumping the body or kidnapping.
The four most beautiful places in the letter generation, the two people eating noodles in the rain is one of them. The corners of her eyes were sad and charming, and she leaned over to kiss her with an unparalleled charm .
mother and son
The last most beautiful place in the world is when Xindai heard the street vendor say, "Mother over there, buy one for your son." She smiled too softly. Lingling is her daughter, isn't Xiangtai her son? This "mother" title is her happiest moment in the whole film.
In prison, she specially asked Xiangtai to see her, and then told him exactly where and what kind of car to find him. As long as he wanted, he could find his biological parents with some help. "Don't you understand, it's not enough to rely on us" , he can't be Xiangtai's mother, let him find his biological mother.
She can't be a mother, but she must be a qualified mother.
sisters
After Lingling's hair was cut short, Xiao Yaji was cool. They hugged in front of the mirror and said "cute" and "we both have two names". Even in the custom store, Aji would tell customers that Lingling, who would never put on new clothes, was the same as when she was a child. . At home they are aunts and sisters, but they really get along more like a pair of sisters.
a little gossip
A scene that moved me very much was that their family came out one after another and gathered to watch the fireworks. Covered by thick clouds, it was pitch black, not as gorgeous as the poster. In the film, only a small slanted slit in the middle was lit up. Six people together, "watching" the fireworks. Maybe they did "see" the fireworks in the sky, after all, the little people also have a roaring brilliance .
The two versions of the posters designed by Huang Hai are very interesting. Compared with the original film, "Hua Huo" has added a gorgeous light. "Hai" gave them an umbrella to protect them from the wind and rain. Maybe this is the grandma who is burying her age spots with fine sand. Give the "family" the last refuge .
Lingling really complied with the agreement and never said there was another grandmother. Even if she was painting, she only dared to paint five people. Perhaps this is the deepest bond of this criminal family, even in a despicable way, to protect others .
Hear thunder in a silent place.
In the end, although I don't see this scene in the film, I think everyone will be happy about it:
They also had such a happy reunion under the sun.
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